Did you know?

Halitosis, purple carrots, flappers,

A person who has never had a haircut is correctly referred to as asercecomic.

Mr. White's Halitosis Detector was patented in 1925 and consisted of a device that trapped the

human breath while exhaling. A small pair of bellows was attached to let the trapped air be expelled,

enabling the user to sniff it.

Kleenex tissues were originally used as filters in gas masks.

Mark Twain didn't even make it through elementary school

Is bottled water worth it? Evian spelled backwards is 'naïve'.

To take an oath, ancient Romans put a hand on their testicles. That's where the word testimony

comes from.

The average person spends three years of his/her life on a toilet.

Originally, purple carrots were the norm, but there were some offshoots -- yellow and white ones

appeared in the wild. Over time 17th century Dutch carrot growers managed to cultivate these yellow

and white carrots into the orange ones we are familiar with today.

Daffy Ducks middle name is Dumas.

When translated literally television means far seeing.

The Cisco Kid was the first television show in color.

The first in-flight movie shown on an internal flight in the USA was in 1929.

Vanity Fair was the first magazine to describe young women as 'flappers'.

Sources: The Encyclopedia of Useless Information by William Hartston; funfunnyfacts.com;

nowIknow.com; triviacountry.com